Executive Order 8631—Prescribing Regulations Governing the Exportation of Articles and Materials Designated in the President's Proclamation of January 10, 1941, Issued Pursuant to the Provisions of Section 6 of the Act of Congress Approved July 2, 1940, and Amending Regulations of July 2, 1940, Covering the Exportation of Certain Articles and Materials
Pursuant to the authority vested in me by the provisions of section 6 of the Act of Congress approved July 2, 1940, entitled "AN ACT To expedite the strengthening of the national defense," I hereby prescribe the following additional regulations governing the exportation of:
1. Copper
2. Brass and Bronze
3. Zinc
4. Nickel
5. Potash
1. As used in my proclamation of January 10, 1941, issued pursuant to the provisions of section 6 of the Act of Congress approved July 2, 1940, and in these regulations, the above articles and materials shall be construed to include:
| A. Copper: | |
| Ore, concentrates, matte, and unrefined copper including blister, black or coarse, converter, and anodes | 6401 |
| Refined copper in bars, billets, cakes, ingots, slabs and other commercial shapes | 6412 |
| Old and scrap copper | 6413 |
| Pipes and tubes | 6422 |
| Plates and sheets | 6423 |
| Rods | 6424 |
| Wire: | |
| Bare | 6425 |
| Insulated wire and cable: | |
| Rubber-covered wire | 6430 |
| Weatherproof wire | 6431 |
| Other insulated wire | 6435 |
| Other primary fabrications | 6412* |
| Fabrications for munitions purposes | 6439* |
| Alloys, other than brass and bronze | |
| B. Brass and Bronze: | |
| Scrap and old | 6440 |
| Ingots and other commercial shapes | 6441 |
| Bars and rods | 6448 |
| Plates and sheets | 6450 |
| Pipes and tubes | 6453 |
| Wire (bare or insulated) | 6457 |
| Other primary fabrications | 6479* |
| Fabrications for munitions purposes | 6479* |
| C. Zinc: | |
| Ore, concentrates, and dross | 6570 |
| Cast in slabs, plates, or blocks | 6571 |
| Rolled in sheets and strips | 6572 |
| Other forms including scrap | 6573 |
| Alloys | 6573 |
| Dust | 6586 |
| Manufactures containing 20% or more zinc | 6589* |
| D. Nickel: | |
| Ores, concentrates, and matte | 6545 |
| Metal in any form including ingots, bars, rods, sheets, plates, and scrap | 6545 |
| Alloys containing 10% or more nickel including scrap | 6545 |
| 6610 | |
| Nickel compounds (chemical) containing 10% or more nickel | 8399* |
| E. Potash: | |
| Potassium Salts and Compounds | 8356 |
| Potassium hydroxide (KOH) | |
| Potassium carbonate (K2CO3) | |
| Potassium chlorate (KCIO3) | |
| Potassium perchlorate (KCIO4) | |
| Potassium cyanide (KCN) | |
| Potassium iodide (KI) | |
| Potassium nitrate (KNO3) | |
| Potassium permanganate (KMnO4) | |
| Potassium acetate (KC2H3O2) | |
| Potassium bicarbonate (KHCO3) | |
| Potassium bitartrate (KHC4H4O6) | |
| Potassic Fertilizer Materials: | 8531 |
| Potassium chloride (KCI) | |
| Potassium sulphate (K2SO4) | |
| All other potassic fertilizer materials containing 27% or more potassium oxide (K2O) equivalent | |
| All combinations and mixtures of any of the foregoing containing potash salts of 27% or more potassium oxide (K2O) equivalent |
2. The numbers in parenthesis following each material or article designated in paragraph 1 hereof correspond to the "Commodity Number" prefixed to the "Commodity Description" as set out in Schedule B, "Statistical Classification of Domestic Commodities Exported from the United States," effective January 1, 1939, as amended, issued by the United States Department of Commerce. The words are controlling and the numbers are for statistical classification only. An asterisk (*) indicates that the classification herein is not co-extensive with that in said Schedule B.
3. Regulation 1 of the Regulations issued July 2, 1940, pursuant to the Act of July 2, 1940, is modified only in so far as it applies to Copper, Brass and Bronze, Zinc, Nickel, and Potash in accordance with the foregoing classifications. Regulations 2 to 12 inclusive of the Regulations issued July 2, 1940, pursuant to the Act of July 2, 1940, are applicable to exportation of Copper, Brass and Bronze, Zinc, Nickel and Potash.
FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT
The White House,
January 10, 1941.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Executive Order 8631—Prescribing Regulations Governing the Exportation of Articles and Materials Designated in the President's Proclamation of January 10, 1941, Issued Pursuant to the Provisions of Section 6 of the Act of Congress Approved July 2, 1940, and Amending Regulations of July 2, 1940, Covering the Exportation of Certain Articles and Materials Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/368296